Ready to Roll

Ready to Roll

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Ohio, United States
Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Monday, February 29, 2016

EPCOT at DISNEY WORLD

Thursday, February 25th,
Out at 8 am and at it again! We are so lucky to have the bus stop so close to home!
It is sunny and promising warmer temps, so off to EPCOT for the day.

Our first stop was Space Ship Earth -



Race car driver??

The grounds were beautiful - this is where we saw all of the characters sculpted from plants, so many that I did a separate Blog just for those.


This is also where the different countries have buildings, shops, acts, and films telling of their countries. There is no way I can remember all, to tell of each one. We did a lot of walking from one to another, especially since they did not open until 11 am. Then we had to back track to see the ones that we were most interested in, such as; Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Japan, China, France, Morroco, U.S, Mexico, South Africa. Enjoy!!


 


The a Capella chorus in the USA display was awesome!
















Scenery from some of the films was awesome! Makes me want to go there, except to travel foreign countries would not be my comfort level in this day and age.



















We are now headed back to our starting point??

After eight hours we sure were ready to call it a day!! Hope that you have enjoyed the pictures as much as we did. We never thought we would survive so much walking in four days time, but we did!! I would love to go back and see so much that we missed. There is no way you can see it all in one visit. But with the cost what it is, I doubt that we will do it again.
Friday, February 26th we left Fort Wilderness Park at 7 am. 
We had to stop at a garage in Bartow, FL to have the motorhome checked out because we were having a problem with the air conditioner that you run while traveling. Gary wanted to be there at 8 am so that they could take a look and maybe get part numbers, so that we could move on to Wauchala FL until they could schedule an appointment to do the work. It did not work out that way though.

The man at the garage did not recommend driving it that much!! So we had to locate a park close by their garage. We finally located at Good Life RV Resort just down Rt 60 from their garage at Bartow. This is the park where Diane and Bob Hergenroder lived during the winter until he passed away.It is a very nice park. And of course, my first job was to catch up on laundry!   
It took the garage a good part of Friday just to get the doghouse off so that they could get to the parts because some yokel glued down the fiberglass doghouse cap, the carpet and screwed it also!!  Gr-r-r!!
While they did that we got our reservations changed and went to Walmart for a couple things and found a motel where we could set up home for a few days (depending on how long they need the MH). Then we moved into Good Life and spent the weekend. Monday we pulled out and took the MH back to the garage and then took off in the car. We just puttered around going to different stores (forgot I needed a hair cut or would have done that also). We looked for thrift shops but did not find any. That is a good pastime for us!
Tuesday (tomorrow) Gary will go to Wauchula in the car to teach colored pencil class for two hours at the Escapee RV Park that we had hoped to stay in. It is the park that we are on a waiting list to buy into and we did not want to make a bad impression by cancelling. Especially since they had twenty signed up for that class. So will go down each Tuesday for the month. I probably will tag along and maybe I can meet up with my niece and her children and grand children.
So in spite of the messy Jello changing plans (as all plans are made in Jello), we will find plenty new things to do. 
So stay tuned.

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